By Dr. Craig D. Reid We’ve just finished Halloween, gained an extra hour on the proverbial space time continuum and El Nino is going to hit Southern California with inclemency worse thanSharknado 4. What more could possibly make So-Cal the place to be? As nature warns Pacific Coast residents to buy flood insurance, San Diego […]
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TERMINATOR GENESYS: I’LL BE BACK?
By Dr. Craig D. Reid The major problem with the $170 million budgeted Terminator Genisys are the trailers…all the important twists and plot points are as visible as James Cameron and Linda Hamilton not being involved in any Terminator project since The Terminator (1984) and Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). Basically the cool, unexpected twists […]
Jupiter Ascending: Another Crazy Galaxy Adventure
By Dr. Craig D. Reid What do you get when you cross The Matrix (1999) with Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), mix in a villain that pathetically and effeminately tries to act like Gary Oldman’s Zorg character from The Fifth Element (1997), a hero that’s part Lycan and Ryan Reynolds from Green Lantern (2011) and […]
BIG HERO 6: Disney Marvel meets SONY HalWall
By Dr. Craig D. Reid Disney’s dapper 3-D computer-animated cartoon, Big Hero 6, which looks more like a Pixar movie, but is a superhero film based on a Marvel comic book (thus look for the Stan Lee nod), has taken its portmanteau San Fransokyo (yes, a mixture of San Diego, Frankfurt and Tokyo) story location […]
The Hobbit 2: Welcome to the House of Smaug – He’ll Pollute Your Senses
At its primeval parlay of powerful poetic pros and prophetic prowess, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is such a spine tingling psychotic film that if I saw this movie when I was a kid, I’d have had nightmares for months. The soul creepiness absorbs you, the places our heroes visit carry so much potential […]
THOR: THE DARK WORLD – Thor-ougly Enjoyable
Speed of lightening, power of thunder…there’s no need to fear …UnderThor is here. But seriously, this is a well Thor-t out film and it is quite obvious that our pure Thor-oughbred Hammer Time hero is a Thor-n in the dark forces trying to knock out the Nine Realms with Aether, pronounced like the anesthetic ether, […]